safe and active communities branch (sac)

​​Crash Medical Outcomes Data Project

The California Department of Public Health, Safe and Active Communities (SAC)
Branch has implemented a project to integrate medical and crash data on traffic
injuries. California's traffic safety and injury prevention communities need
analyses of both crash and medical data focusing on person-level risk factors
and outcomes to better understand how to prevent Californians from being injured
and killed in traffic crashes.

This project responds to the current gap in knowledge by electronically
linking police crash reports with medical sources like emergency department and
hospital records and with death data. Other
states have used this data linkage approach to show, for example, how seat
belts and motorcycle helmets protect people from injuries. This project also
responds to the need for instant on-line analysis of traffic injury data for
policy evaluation and planning by making person-level crash data accessible via
the web.

The Crash Medical Outcomes Data (CMOD) Project is funded by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under the auspices of the Traffic
Records Coordinating Committee, and administered by California's Office of
Traffic Safety. CMOD is included in California's Strategic Highway Safety Plan
under Challenge Area 16: Improve Safety Data Collection, Access, and
Analysis.